by Rajan Singh | Apr 18, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
The cheerleaders are quiet. When Pharmeasy acquired Thyrocare, online influencers were cheering how Indian startups have ‘matured’ and how a nascent startup acquiring a mature company showed their ‘coming of age’, whatever that meant. Just a...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 17, 2025 | 2025, Newsletter
In 1994-95, during the placement season at IIT Kanpur, I desperately wanted a job at a company called Hughes Software Systems. Today, hardly anyone has heard of the company, but back then, it was a leader in computer networking — a red hot area (almost like what...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 17, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
In a leadership course at Wharton, the professor would ask, “What qualities should a good leader have?” Some student would say, “Vision.” The professor would then parrot back, “Yes, without vision, you can’t have leadership.”...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 16, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
The biggest killer of productivity is not laziness — it is anxiety. You can have the greatest productivity software, but if you are anxious, you can’t get anything done. Here is why. To do any thoughtful work, our brain’s pre-frontal cortex (PFC) has...
by Rajan Singh | Apr 15, 2025 | LinkedIn Posts
On the D-day of a consulting engagement at McKinsey, the team thrilled the client with a proposal to cut millions of dollars in cost. But the senior partner heading the engagement told the client, “What we are doing is polishing your furniture while your house...
